I connected Digital Optical cord and HDMI cable to my TV. I noticed that when I unplugged the HDMI, the unit still worked. Do I need the HDMI?
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You'll still need the HDMI due to the signal encoding restrictions over optical. With optical you usually are limited to 2 channels rather than the 5.1 channels over HDMI
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In that situation you'd only need HDMI to get video to your TV - but it sounds like the video is getting to your TV from another source as well?
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No you need the hdmi to VGA converter box it converts digital to analog. The one in question converts analog to digital
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Sounds dumb but hear me out! Perhaps you didn't fully insert the optical plug into the TV. This slipped me up when I first bought my optical cable years ago and again today with my new EX72. Either the plugs on my cable are a bit too big or the optical ports are crazy tight when they're still brand new, because they seem to have taken the plug, but it takes unreasonable force to get them to actually click in.
816098
No, you connect the soundbar to your TV using the digital optical cord and then anything that is plugged into your TV through HDMI will come through the soundbar.
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Alex- I'm not sure if it does to be honest. I prefer to use a Toslink (optical) cable and HDMI. I feel that having the dedicated cables for each have caused me less headaches. sorry I can't be much help on your question
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Yes, but it depeneds on whether the unit is working (i have had problems), you need to unplug and reinsert the HDMI connection
266310
The Roku unit that I have only has an HDMI cable. If you have a new receiver. It should have an HDMI input and then on the output HDMI goes to your TV. Then you will have sound and picture I do not have a digital receiver, so I needed the digital to analog converter. I hope this helps you anything else, don't hesitate to write rich
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I don't have an optical source on my television. I was using the coaxile cable and the other cables supplied with the unit.
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Check to see if ur device requires the 11 pin micro USB adapter. If it doesn't then having it plugged in will cause you to lose your hdmi signal. If you need it then you use it.
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You need to plug in the USB cable as well. HDMI only does sound and video, the USB cable is for the hub and touchscreen.
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What if you have a 360 as well? The 360 doesn't have an optical slot if you're using the HDMI.Can you connect an optical cable from the TV to the receiver so you can skip the hassle of switching wires between the PS3/360/Cable, or is that possible? I want to use HDMI or else what's the point of an HDTV?
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I connect the HDMI output on my computer to the J-Tech and send one output to my receiver and the other to my TV. Works for me. Switch back and forth generally w/o any problems. Very rarely I have to reset the switch by just unplugging and replugging the HDMI cord from my computer. The HDMI output on my computer does not transmit sound, so I can't comment on this aspect. I use the computers' coax and optical outputs for audio.
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I got a digital optical cable to hook this Sony unit to my PS3. I set the PS3 audio setting to digital optical but can not get any sound. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? My TV even has a digital optical connection and I don't get any sound from it eitehr. I know the cable is ok because I see the red glow on one end.
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I have a WDTV PLAY (no smart tv), so I connect the hdmi to the TV por the best picture, and then I connect the optical to the home theater for the best audio, it works perfect, hope my experience helps.
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No, you did the right thing. There isn't really any difference between component cables and HDMI. 91 bucks seems pricey, I bought one a year ago for 30 bucks. The only advantage over HDMI is it carries both audio and video. Also when HDCP is implemented you don't have to worry about your videos not playing over component, but that won't be done for years.
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I ran my HDMI cable directly from my dvd to my TV. You have to run a seperate sound cable anyway, so why add another switch and cable to it. Works just fine and no loss of pic quality.
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I have a DVI and Toslink feeding into this unit and HDMI coming out to the amplifier. I lose audio when the DVI feed is unplugged even though the Toslink is still connected. I still get audio, however, when feed from this unit to the TV it feeds to is off. Hope that answers your question.